Mike Croucher

Mike Croucher is a Principal Customer Success Engineer at MathWorks, where he collaborates with researchers and educators on various aspects of research computing. His expertise spans research software engineering, high-performance computing, cloud computing, machine learning, mathematics, and science, with over 20 years of experience in the field.12

Throughout his career, Croucher has held several notable positions, including Developer Advocate and Product Manager for Cloud and Machine Learning at The Numerical Algorithms Group, Head of Research IT at the University of Leeds, and Co-founder of the University of Sheffield’s Research Software Engineering group. He was also a recipient of one of the first EPSRC-funded Research Software Engineering Fellowships in 2015.1

Croucher is a strong advocate for the Research Software Engineering movement and is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute. He has contributed to various academic publications and articles related to MATLAB and research software engineering.13 Additionally, he maintains a blog where he writes about MATLAB and other related technologies.3